No more fingerbones. Like unblown balloons, five goopy sacs dangle off my palm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hadn\u2019t felt anything. I was just waiting in line at Walgreens when my phone buzzed in my pocket, and I went to grab it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My other hand is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly up and down the line: shrieks, things falling to the floor, the fleshy flutter of panicked flapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I manage to scoop my phone out of my pocket. Dragging my fingersacs across the screen, I scroll through shocking headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
________<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seth Wade is a tech ethicist studying and teaching at Bowling Green State University. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications like <\/em>Strange Horizons, <\/em>McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency, <\/em>Hunger Mountain Review, <\/em>Apparition Literary Magazine, <\/em>HAD, <\/em>hex, <\/em>The Cafe Irreal, <\/em>X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, <\/em>Broken Antler,<\/em> Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and <\/em>The Gateway Review. You can follow him on X: @SethWade4Real<\/a> or Instagram: @chompchomp4u<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"